I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Author: Aristotle
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
Author: Mark Twain
Work: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Author: Helen Keller
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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is not greater disaster than greed.
Author: Lao Tzu
Work: The Way of Lao-tzu
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We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Work: Maxims
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Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
Author: Socrates
Work: from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Author: Mark Twain
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Author: Mark Twain
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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
Author: Mark Twain
Work: Following the Equator
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Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Author: Khalil Gibran
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It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Author: Aristotle
Work: Politics
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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Author: Khalil Gibran
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Author: Aristotle
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If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Author: James Halliwell
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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